1 After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.  * 5:1 Mt 23:372 By the Sheep Gate  * 5:2 Neh 3:1,32; 12:39 in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda  * 5:2 Some mss read Bethzatha; other mss read Bethsaida in Aramaic, which has five colonnades. 3 Within these lay a large number of the disabled — blind, lame, and paralyzed.  * 5:3 Some mss include vv. 3b-4:— waiting for the moving of the water, 4because an angel would go down into the pool from time to time and stir up the water. Then the first one who got in after the water was stirred up recovered from whatever ailment he had.

5 One man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and realized he had already been there a long time,  * 5:6 Is 46:10; Zch 14:7; Jn 5:6; 6:6; 8:14; 9:3; 11:11–15; 13:1–3,11 he said to him, "Do you want to get well? "

7 "Sir,"  * 5:7 Lk 10:1 the disabled man answered, "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me."

8 "Get up," Jesus told him, "pick up your mat and walk."9 Instantly the man got well, picked up his mat, and started to walk.

Now that day was the Sabbath,  * 5:9 Mk 2:23